Battling During the War Years
For national park employees, especially those lower in its hierarchy, fear is a part of their job, and overcoming it a responsibility. Wildlife was vulnerable during the years...
Issue 103 | June 2010
The question is not, Can they reason? Nor, Can they talk? But, Can they suffer? Jeremy Benthem 1748-1832: Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789) Tow can I make...
For national park employees, especially those lower in its hierarchy, fear is a part of their job, and overcoming it a responsibility. Wildlife was vulnerable during the years...
Just north of the historical town of Bhaktapur is the temple complex of Changu Narayan, one of the seven UNESCO recognized World Heritage Sites in the Kathmandu valley. The site...
W hat makes a good story? It’s not what everyone already knows. Choose one: ‘Chitwan’, ‘Shoeshine Boy’, or ‘Golfi ng with Gurkhas’. ‘Chitwan’ is fun, but what’s new? It’s...
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How One Man Went From Pass-Ing Under Leopards To Hunt-Ing Them. At age 14, my uncle, Binod, shot his first leopard. “The sun had come out after a period of...
I like to ask my conservation students to pick a current controversy in wildlife management and explain how they would resolve it. Most say they would implement policies...
In 1999, I made my .rst trip to Bardia on assignment for Nepal Travel Trade Reporter, a monthly travel news magazine. In fact, that was the year I took up...
He walks with a slight limp, and several of his fingers are shorn off, but 78-year-old mountaineer Kurt Diemberger is still seeking snowy peaks that have been his livelihood and...
It was an early Saturday morning and I was pre-pared for my trip to Bajrabarahi temple which is located 8 kilometers from Lalitpur and is among the four famous barahi...
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I have been talking endlessly for more than a decade! How is this...? I’m a member of Toastmasters International, and have been for more than a decade. Toastmasters is...
Khem Aryal is a writer of poetry and fiction, and past president of the Society of Nepali Writers in English. His works have appeared in several local publications and his...
We’ve had enough of the usual, trite pop albums, with a bland-at-best singer lamenting over their cloying love stories or heartbreaks. It’s easy to assume Nilanjana Bhattacharya’s debut, Sounds From...
One of the most arduous jobs is perhaps that of a Ranger's. They make sure the fora and fauna of the forest is preserved. This is an attempt to reflect...